Coronation Street is an award-winning British soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday, 9 December, 1960 in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television.The show was created by Tony Warren and is produced by Granada Television (now branded ITV Productions), holder of the ITV franchise for the northwest of England, and was shown by most of the ITV stations then operating (See Scheduling details below). It became fully networked on 6 March1961, when ATV, the only remaining franchise, began airing it.
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